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Deceptively simple but the fruit of many scientific tests, the system, which is merchandised as Three Dimensional Seeing, consists of painting the central mass of a machine a special grey which Du Pont calls "Horizon," then picking out the working surfaces in "spotlight buff" or "spotlight green." The idea is to increase the worker's alert observance of what he is doing by making it effortless for him to see, in soft-not glaring-contrast, the object he is working on and the cutting or shaping parts of the machine...
...Vinegar Tree" has turned out sour on its opening night. The shortcomings, however, are easily correctable with little effort. Shifting a spotlight six inches to one side, a rearrangement of properties and one or two simple cast shakeups can save a clever comedy. With those few alterations, Joy Street's second presentation of the year will be well worth attending...
After Partner Corcoran left Government service for a fat private Washington law practice, Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which...
Last January, Harry Haag James and his 28-piece band had been $42,000 in the red. Today he has paid off his debt to ex-boss Benny Goodman, is well on his way to his first million. In the past few weeks he has bagged three commercial programs: Spotlight Bands for Coca-Cola, Monday evenings; the Jack Benny program while Benny is in New York; the Chesterfield program, three times weekly. He has also pocketed a juicy Hollywood contract, has played in two Class B pictures and. next January, will be featured in M.G.M.'s Girl Crazy with...
Last week Dogcaster Bob, who looks like a barfly but loves the Big Open Spaces, became Gamecaster Bob. On his new program, Sportsmen's Spotlight (Mutual's WGN, Tuesday, 7:15-7:30 C.W.T.), he championed a cause he himself had cooked up: a new way to tackle the meat shortage. Said he: Too many camp cooks yell: "Come and get it-or I'll throw it away." Every year, he declared, 435,000,000 lb. of fish and wild game are hooked and bagged in the U.S.-enough to feed an army...